Lubbock firefighters of the Ricky Martin brigade christen their new FedEx jet.News never stops breaking in Lubbock, not as long as The Avalanche-Journal is around.
The Lubbock Fire Department Monday morning received an aircraft
donated by FedEx for Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting Training.
Parked safely away from all avalanche-prone areas. Unfortunately, bored people, pyros and Lubbock firefighters will ultimately be disappointed in the new gift.
Deputy Fire Marshall Garett Nelson said the plane will not be set on fire
for training simulations..
According to a news release that the A-J was fortunate enough to discover, this astonishing bit of information:
Before its final flight, the airplane was used for more than 28 years to
transport packages throughout the United States, according to a news
release.
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Even though PJ is away on vacation in Thailand ( the real Thailand, not the overbuilt, touristy Thailand that has running water and electricity ), Nepal ( learning Nepali police commands) and Tibet ( freeing it, of course), it's past due for a HOT TEA PJ installment. Even more so when you consider that January is Hot Tea Month.
- Routinely, I will engage PJ in a discussion about the proper way to handle cooked food. I have never won this discussion and fear I never will. When I told him that cooked food needs to be cooled as rapidly as possible - leaving cooked food out to cool down at room temp prolongs the time that it's in the danger zone of 40-140 F - and that this is neither superstition nor tradition, but science, he stifled me with, "You're talking science. I'm talking reality." I'll need some help from Karl in interpreting that.
- February 10th is the official opening of FuBar. PJ returns on March 2nd. Construction of an armed checkpoint across the middle of Soho Street commences March 3rd.
- Names under consideration for the next Sports Day combined team are P-Fu, P-Bar, BarPJ and BarFu.
- I will buy anyone a drink of their choice at PJ's if they can give me a good recipe for chicken spaghetti. Really. I want the danged recipe. If you're reading this outside of Taichung, go to a bar, order a drink and put it on my tab. That's what I would do anyway.
- AmCham evidently holds bi-weekly pub crawls. That's news to me. I haven't seen them on Soho street, well, almost ever. You have to register ahead of time online. That is unless "...you don't know how to click 'Submit'" you can just show up. Oh, they also highly recommend knee pads and gloves. Mayor Hu must be a regular.
1 comment:
PJ is clearly a social constructivist. "Reality", for PJ and like-minded scholars, is not a fixed and objective thing that we all share. Rather it is created by society, through the beliefs of different groups and through interaction between individuals.
This conflicts with the view of science as is usually held by actual scientists. They think that reality has its own objective existence, and that it can be measured and recorded, and that furthermore one can make statements about the world that are true or false. These 'facts' are independent of the world view of the person making the statement.
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